"Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon."

Ladies, gentlemen, everyone between and beyond; the world doesn't need data centres

Right wing politics in a 🥜🐚 #nzpol

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

This is some world class trolling, the internet remains undefeated, Trump not so much.

Selling off & opening up to privatisation 60% of NZ's conservation land is tragic. Tourism is one of NZ's biggest earners, and mining only gets us royalties of 2% while being on the hook for billions of clean up costs, while they suck our resources dry. Let alone our wildlife, ecosystems #nzpol

Is anyone surprised that Shane Jones spent $63,000 to upgrade to business class, told a private limo to wait 24 hours & didn't care that he exceeded his approved budget by $30,000 - all while on a mining junket Jones is the same guy who had no compunction charging porn to taxpayers #nzpol #kiwi

@amnesty.org very based: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."

GOOD. Suno and their ilk deserve to go bankrupt.

Potentially this violates contracts on projects, making Adobe dangerous to use if you're trying to make a living.

One idea I've been pondering re: NZ legislative procedures is a reform to urgency measures, such that any laws passed under urgency have a sundown clause. If you haven't been able to confirm a law through normal, non-urgency processes within say 6 or 9 months, it gets automatically repealed. #nzpol

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

Yet more evidence that Microsoft’s intrusion into the videogame industry has been a net loss for the medium. Consume, carve, kill. That’s all this malignant company does.

I don't think many people understand how much we are paralleling the US in the contemptuous hijack of democracy and corrosive shutdown of evidence and knowledge bases. It's like there is a hard right box of chocolates and we are just eating them in a different order. #NZPol

Absolute truth.

Not a Living Wage Employer among them. They trumpet their charitable giving when if they paid their fair share of taxes many of the charities wouldn’t be needed. Nothing to celebrate here unless, like them, unfettered greed, gross inequality, and buying political favours is your thing. #nzpol

Counterpoint for any of these folks, Ross. Let me be careful in how I word this...*ahem* No, it fucking isn't, you twit.

Ōtautahi Christchurch united for trans rights today at a rally at the Bridge of Remembrance and it was beautiful - awesome people, lots of flags, great speeches, and kickass signs.

Placard game was strong, #trans #intersex

Great vibes at the day of action for trans rights in Ōtautahi today.

I fucking hate this government with every fibre of my being. I have never ‘hated’ a government in my life, disliked yes, but this government is the last fucking straw for me. Cruelty for cash. Makes me sick 🤢🤮

1. Create more poverty 2. Further criminalise poverty 3. Privatise prisons 4. Profit #nzpol

so we've got mass breath-testing falsification and now twenty-two investigations into police with objectionable material where three have now been charged, twelve have been handled in internal disciplinary processes, and four have resigned.

“She said the existing inquiries, by the Ombudsman and the Department of Internal Affairs were "valuable" but not "impartial". Our Democracy is clearly wide open for corruption when 2 of 3 oversight bodies have no recourse to stop it once found. That needs to be remedied day 1. #nzpol #NZ

@bdolan.bsky.social "UNTIL YOU HATE THE RICH YOU CAN NEVER LOVE THE POOR THE HEROES OF THE RICH ARE THE VILLAINS OF THE POOR"

“A study by the Coalition to End Women's Homelessness found that over 1000 young people in Gisborne did not have a proper home@ #nzpol “Wealthy and sorted” Mr Luxon and the ACT/NZF/NAT coalition have no plans to address this, in fact their actions/policies are making it worse.

'Trust the police to have the utmost integrity' say the male politicians. 'No', says Tamatha Paul. And gets publicly shamed for it. Have they apologised to her yet? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

I recall tRump claiming the war was over to congress a month ago and now he is saying it is back on again. This is nothing more than the weekly wall street market manipulation he has been doing since day one. All to make money for himself, family and friends.

@rossthesedays.bsky.social if you're not aware of Rodrigo Y Gabriela, here's a new song, which is an excellent place to start: youtu.be/Wolzo63vons?...

National saying the public transport fare cap is bribing people with their own money As opposed to bribing landlords with other people's money, which is fine, apparently?

Unbelievable! The NZ government is proposing to sell 60% of public land conservation areas! Here is a petition to protest and protect what already is protected, but not by this government obviously. #nzpol Vote better in November! action.greens.org.nz/protect_cons...

LOL if you thought the Trump boos were loud on TV, wait until you hear them from inside MSG. Video courtesy of Evan Roberts from WFAN on X.

Gentailers have a monopoly Gentailers keep fossils in the mix Gentailers make 93% margins Gentailers stripped billions in profits rather than invest Price of electricity has rocketed when 87% of ours is renewable Gov sets the rules owns a huge chunk of the gentailers They exploit us #nzpol

For those not on Instagram, here is the pic with all the locations, dates, and times nationwide.

— $2.9b restored to landlords (23 May) — Fast-Track donors paid six figures to govt parties (15 May) — Upston keeps her $52k allowance, tightens it for everyone else — 63% raise for Pharmac chair Bennett (4 Jun) Party of greed, not what we need. #nzpol

The atrocities continue.

Honestly incredible stuff but this made me gasp: "For $100 million a year we can get clean oceans,” he said. This is less than the annual marketing budget of most major consumer goods companies that produce the plastic The Ocean Cleanup is pulling from the sea. techfixated.com/young-invent...

So many people are fighting to get a 3% pay raise which is effectively a pay cut given inflation and here ex govt ministers are getting 63% pay raise signed off by current govt ministers who are mates. But it’s not corruption or anything just attracting talent aye.

Is it even a surprise the Luxon staffer who secretly accepted law change orders from Fonterra & Z is Matt Burgess, NZ Initiative? Of course he was also a guest speaker for Taxpayers Union. Both Taxpayers Union & NZ Initiative are registered partners of Atlas Network

David Seymour's 63% pay increase for Paula Bennett is on form. Last year, the Coalition government quietly increased Crown Board pay scales by 80%, paying $160,000 for multiple Board members. This is what National, ACT and even NZ First now stand for #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Imagine if we clawed back the landlord tax gifts and fully funded disability services instead. #nzpol

I have issues with the game's early difficulty and overall balance, but @yachtclubgames.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with the art, exploration, sound and world design in Mina. I have not been this /excited/ to discover stuff in a game in a long long time. Cheers to the team.

You defeat the forces of bigotry and division by CUTTING THEM OFF AT THE ROOT. You don't let them gain a foothold by dismissing them or downplaying the seriousness or buying into "well people are concerned" rhetoric You say NO. THAT'S BULLSHIT. GET OUTTA HERE and embarrass them off the stage

It's long past time to stop talking about what Labour won't do and started talking about what they WILL do! My mother's whānau are Kirks, and we are proud to be related to Norm. Labour has lost every single person in that whānau since 2023 - you and your colleagues should reflect on that, I think

@gabrielenguard.bsky.social what did you do?

Why isn’t this still the biggest story in our recent NZ history? #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ